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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** AppFolio, Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $138,400.0 - $173,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Relational Databases, Linux, Amazon DynamoDB, Web Servers, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Pulumi, Load Balancing, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Route53, Terraform
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-site-reliability-engineer-observability-open-roles-appfolio-7479992

## About the Role

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys supporting teams, helping them become more self-sufficient, and building reliable, simple systems. This position will require on-call responsibilities. Lastly, you have strong communication skills and enjoy working on a team that values openness, integrity, ownership, and attention to detail.
Must-Haves

 * Experience developing Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives for the above systems.
 * Proven ability to diagnose and monitor performance and reliability issues across the stack: relational databases, web servers, networking, OS, containers, load balancers, etc. You'll chase down performance problems and uncover root causes of system failures.
 * Strong coding background: you've written code to perform critical tasks or in production. The exact language doesn't matter, though we give bonus points for Go, Ruby, or Python.
 * Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
 * Expertise with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tooling and technology patterns
 * Experience with Amazon Web Services (commonly EKS, RDS Aurora, Lambda, S3, EBS, Route53, DynamoDB, and VPCs)
 * Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years industry experience, or equivalent work experience

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

 * Mastery experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, MySQL, Linux, container orchestration, Networking, etc.



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